Cosmos Birthday and a Black Snowflake!

Happy weekend, crafty friends! I'm here with my card from last night's Craft Roulette Episode #289 with host Mary Gunn & guest Sejr Andersen (‪@SejrAndersen‬) who was making his 4th appearance.

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio A2 card & cardstock;

BoBunny Banner Year (dotted);

My Favorite Things Black & White Plaid

Dies - Birch Press Design Splendid Cosmos;

Spellbinders Sitting Pretty (DOM-Jan24) - retired

Other - Simon Says Stamp printed sentiment &

Starshine Dots

As usual the crafty wheel was spun 4 times for the required parameters. If you'd like to play along, visit Craft Roulette.Live for details.

• Project - Dutch Door: I used the easiest form of this fold. 
• Colors - Bird Feeder: I used black/orange/yellow for birds who might visit the feeder and green for the wire feeder we use for bird seed. 
• Element - October: The Cosmos flower is one of October's birth flowers - who knew? 
• Random - Polka Dots: I added a polka dotted strip to my door. 

We had to do a Dutch Door fold for a CR last summer; see my card HERE, if desired. I wanted to do something simpler, so googled and found an easy DD format which Mary & Sejr also happened to use. All you do is trim off the top part of a card front, however much you want. I went about halfway. Added some patterned paper to the inside to show when the door was closed & then a stripe of dotted paper to the door. Die cut a cosmos flower and a stem with leaves, then assembled. A bitty sentiment strip from the bits box & some starshine dots finished the card. On the inside, the sentiment block will be put behind the door.

Had to laugh, I used a cosmos last week too but this is a totally different BPD set - yes, I own several. It doesn't come with any leaves, though, so I used a stem from a Spellbinders set. Here's a view of the card standing so you can see the door open & how the flower goes off the edge. Very fun & easy!

I'll add this card to Darnell's October NBUS Challenge #79 since my cosmos die set got first play here. 

Next up: my second card for October's Christmas Kickstart Challenge #103 where snow is the theme. 

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White;

Paper Studio black; Park Lane A2 card;

Hobby Lobby Antiqued Parchment;

Betterpress Porcelain

Embossing Folder - Honey Bee Snowflakes 3D

Dies - AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set;

Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes

Press Plate with die - Spellbinders Merry & Bright Sentiment Strips

Other - Starshine Dots; foam tape

I wanted to use a snowflake embossing folder & found my 3D Honey Bee one first. I die cut a white panel with a stitched rectangle & then embossed it. Had a mat of black and a gold card so decided to add a strip of gold parchment to the embossed layer. Next I die cut a black snowflake to echo the mat and serve as a focal point for my Betterpressed sentiment. Some starshine dots finished the card. The way the light hit the starshine dots, they appear blue in the photo but are really silver.

That's it for today, friends. Thanks for stopping by & have a crafty weekend!!